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1. Morris states that the best work is "more likely to be done by those who love their working environment, whose workplace inspires their enthusiasm and even a measure of joy." (p. 74)

Select a working environment with which you are familiar that does not live up to Morris's idea and comment on how well the work is done there.

Select another environment with which you are familiar that does live up to Morris' ideal and comment on how well the work is done there.

Professional Development
1. Have you ever seen yourself and your fellow employees as performance artists at work? Why or why not?

Do you believe such an approach is necessary to get the most out of work? Why or why not?

2. How do you add to the beauty of work?

3. Has greater creativity been encouraged at your place of employment? Why or why not?

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1. Morris writes, "I believe that employees should be thought of as partners with management, and all the people within a business should be thought of as partners with both suppliers and customers, partners ultimately for the common goal of living well." (pp. 103 - 104) Is this a realistic arrangement? Why or why not?

What must always be present for such an arrangement to work? Why?

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Almost 2000 words total to discuss the benefits of employees that love their working environment, employees as performance artists, workplace creativity and the attitude of employees as business partners.

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1. Morris states that the best work is "more likely to be done by those who love their working environment, whose workplace inspires their enthusiasm and even a measure of joy." (p. 74)

Select a working environment with which you are familiar that does not live up to Morris's idea and comment on how well the work is done there.

Working environment is one of the important factors of retaining and increasing the employee delight. According to the Two-Factor Theory there are two aspects to job satisfaction: motivation and hygiene. Environmental issues are at the core of the Hygiene Factor. These are needed to ensure employee satisfaction. Work conditions, salary, status, policies and procedures, interpersonal relationships, job security. (Frederick Hertzberg)

Thus the work condition must be made excellent, transparent policies and procedures must be implemented to improve the relationship. Some job security can also be given to the staff.
An Example:
Ramsey & Co. is a garment export house Their production facility and administrative offices are located in the New Delhi the capital city of India. The workforce is comprised of 450 unionized production workers which include a maintenance staff, twenty-five administrative workers. There have been voices of employee dissatisfaction due to the mechanization of the production facility and introduction of the high level automation in every production process. Now the workers have been tasked with additional responsibilities by management due to the automation. But this has come without any increase in pay or other benefits. Moreover this change has been introduced without taking workers into confidence and has resulted in deterioration of work environment.

Select another environment with which you are familiar that does live up to Morris' ideal and comment on how well the work is done there.
According to James Lindner (1998), a study was conduct by the Piketon Research and Extension Center which asked participants to rank motivation factors from 1 being most important to 10 the least important. The motivation factors where ranked as follows: 1) interesting work, (2) good wages, (3) full appreciation of work done, (4) job security, (5) good working condition, (6) promotions and growth in the organization, (7) feeling of being in on things, (8) personal loyalty to employees, (9) tactful discipline, (10) sympathetic help with personal problems. Thus the above factors have to be taken care to motivate the employees.

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Career planner is a company having business of elearning and is facing explosive growth. The surprising thing is that it is having low attrition rate. The management says that the reason of this is their prime focus is on improving the employee delight continuously through out the year. The top management regularly talks with employees about their future aspirations. Proper training is imparted to ensure that s/he helps them to achieve their objectives. The good conduct/work of employees is recognized and appreciated.

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